The Master window has volume, effects, and recording controls that affect all the audio going out of Virtual DJ 8. You can also enable your broadcast stream here, and start or end a recording of your mix. All have drop down arrows to reveal advanced controls.
To the edges of the screen you can see the Hot Cue, Effect, and Loop sections. Effects Effects have always been a point of contention for Virtual DJ critics and users alike. Some agree that the previously included modulation effects such as Reverb and Flange just sounded plain terrible, and there were precious few FX to choose form in Virtual Dj up to 7.
Here are a couple that I think stand out from the bunch, for better or for worse… Distortion While there may be some uses for tube saturation and a little bit of analogue overdrive as effects for certain parts while DJing, the Distortion effect in Virtual DJ 8 sounds to me like clipping: Echo The echo effect does as its name suggests: It creates repetitions of the music as the track goes along, creating an echo effect.
This is good, by the way. Loops The loop section provides controls for specifying loop in and out points, loop length, and the ability to create rolls and auto loops. You can even set a loop size and move that around, enabling and disabling whenever you want to use it at certain points in a song. It worked well. Alternatively, you can also do a PC-to-PC direct broadcast or an episodes podcast by logging on to their site which will provide you with an html5 player, streaming links and other tools.
A Sample Editor is included in Virtual DJ 8, and it lets you do some very basic audio editing operations within the software itself. Handy for finger drumming. Maschine-style choke groups let you place samples in a bank whose playback is stopped whenever another sample form the same bank is played.
You can use video clips and still images as samples in the sample bank, which would make for some interesting visuals in a live set video juggling, anyone? Browser Virtual DJ 8 comes with a vastly improved Browser section that is separated into three zones: Folders which appear on the left side of the screen , File Zone the middle which shows you your audio files , and Side Zone on the right.
You can shuffle these zones in and out of view if you want them to take more or less screen real estate. Folders on the left, File zone in the middle and Side zone on the right. The Side zone can be configured to display music folders, automix playlists, or in this case, the Sampler. The Folders zone show you a list of all folders accessible to Virtual DJ 8. There is also the ability to create Favourites folders, Virtual folders and Filter folders, which are essentially playlists nested within a parent folder that contains audio that matches criteria that you can specify.
Oh, and did I mention that you can pull Serato DJ crates too? Side Zone acts as an auxiliary window of sorts, letting you display Automix and Karaoke lists as well as entire folders of music that you can drag and drop here.
There is the option to undock them and move them around your desktop, though. File Zone lists all the contents inside a chosen folder. This is also where album art is displayed, and it scrolls like a carousel as you go through files in your collection. The File Zone lists all files inside a folder, and also has the LiveFeedback feature which suggests a song for you to play next.
Whenever you set cue points and loops, these get saved as POIs. Automix Editor This editor lets you create precise mix in and out points among songs in an Automix list, allowing for perfect transitions. Automix has three options: Smart, which automatically determines the best parts in a song to mix in and out of, Fade, and None, which just plays one song after another without any mixing.
The Automix editor allows you to fine tune your playlist for automated mixing, letting you specify mix in and mix out points as well as the types of transitions you would want between songs. Here you can add and remove POIs as you see fit. Sadly, there is a lack of hotkeys and scrub function, making it clunky and tedious to use.
Video Editor You can do basic video editing functions within Virtual DJ 8, through the built-in video editor. Basic editing can be done in this window: Aside from editing the start and end points of the sample and a few attributes of the sample like Gain and Mode, the only other thing you can do is adjust the transparency and position of the video image and change the background colour.
And, using the millions of automatic reports Virtual DJ get every day from other Virtual DJ software users around the world, it will give you meaningful advices on which songs other DJs consider to go well after what you just played. DJ Virtual offline installer for PC can play not only audio tracks, but also video or karaoke if you connect your computer to a projector or the club's screens.
It comes with a plethora of effects, ranging from traditional flanger, echo, etc, to more modern 'beat-aware' effects like beatgrid, slicer, loop-roll. And if you mix videos, you'll also find a lot of video effects and transitions to play with.
Its built-in sampler will let you spice up your mixes with a broad range of drops and loops, or you can go creative and merge live performance and production by creating remixes on-the-fly by using the sampler like a sequencer. The DJ tool is plug-and-play compatible with most of the DJ controllers that exist on the market. Just plug yours and you will be ready to go. And if you want to change any of the default behavior, VirtualDJ for Windows has a powerful 'VDJScript' language that will let you easily tweak any functions exactly to your liking.
Same for the interface. If you want to change it, VDJ website hosts hundreds of user-made interfaces to replace the default one, or you could easily create your own.
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